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⌈ Secret Post #6215 ⌋

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Re: For some reason I felt the need to write an essay on this

[(Anonymous)]

Hm... I think MSF is as much as or even more of a thing now than in the 2010s, though. In the 2010s, you had things like Wincest/Destiel and that Teen Wolf pairing (Derek/Stiles). But recently I've seen one MSF pipeline that is like, Dream/Hob -> Ed/Stede -> Aziraphale/Crowley -> Loki/Mobius as new seasons of shows come out (this is what I would call the fluffy middle-aged man action-adventure TV show pipeline), and I've seen another pipeline that is like Supernatural -> Victuuri from Yuri on Ice -> Stucky -> WangXian and other pairings from The Untamed/MDZS -> Drarry resurgence (HP is evergreen and ironically experiencing a renaissance at the moment) (this is what I would call the pretty white guys with issues pipeline).

I don't think you need reccers and manifestos or multiple generations of fans sharing the slash -- all you need is highly popular shows that get a lot of "buzz" and people talking about it all the time and sharing gifsets, and then there's a certain kind of longfic slash writer or talented artist who will show up and start writing/drawing art in the hot new fandom and getting thousands of kudos for it if they ride the wave right.

Re: For some reason I felt the need to write an essay on this

[(Anonymous)]

SA.

Oh wait... WangXian and Victuuri *definitely* aren't white guys but they are very pretty. I don't think it makes much of a difference when it comes to Migratory Slash Fandom, though. Those pairings are still very much part of the phenomenon.

Re: For some reason I felt the need to write an essay on this

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I take your point that MSF isn't dead. I would still say it's fragmented though, in the way TV viewership has fragmented with streaming.

I feel like in the early naughts the pipelines you've identified would have been smaller links coming off a main juggernaut slash pairing, like Stile/Derek. And do now we might have the smaller links floating around, but there isn't a new juggernaut slash pairing to join it all together like the centre circle in a venn diagram - or, to bring it back to the TV analogy, that one 'water cooler' show that everyone watched. Now we have mini eater cooler show moments, but it's hard to have a widescalec cultural phenomenom show when everyone is subscribed to different streaming platforms. (Not that any of these changes are bad things, just changes).